Test your chess: Reitstein problem 71

White to play and win

A Southey v H Morkel 1975

Solution

1 Qg6+ is obvious (at least since it is a puzzle: in the game, white missed it) when 1…fg[] 2 f7+ Kf8[] 3 Bd8

The f7 pawn can't reach the promotion square, but white can win the exchange after 3…Bd7 4 Ba5 Kg7 5 Bb4 Rf8 6 Bf8+ Kf8.

White will win, perhaps slowly, but probably surely.

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